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...stopped breathing. The Schaefer prone pressure method, which first-aiders know best, does the trick by forcing the air out of the lungs in rhythmic thrusts and relying on the body's elasticity to suck it back in again. A later method, developed in 1948 by Inventor John H. Emerson, operates on an opposite principle. Emerson's idea is to lift the patient's hips off the ground at regular intervals, thus lowering his diaphragm and making him breathe in. Exhalation follows naturally when the hips are lowered...
Although the results of Hirsh's experiments have been published, no companies have shown any interest yet. "They probably object to the idea because of the appearance angle," commented the inventor. The devices are each 3/4 inch square...
...spot in his heart for the Western Union Telegraph Co., because it gave him his start. As a young man, Edison was a Western Union telegrapher; later, the company bought his improved stock and commodity ticker for $40,000, which enabled Edison to set up as a full-time inventor...
...Clerihew" is a verse of four lines of varying length in which the first two and last two lines rhyme. It gets its name from its inventor, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, author (Trent's Last Case), poet, and contributor to the New Statesman. Sample "Clerihew" from a New Statesman competition...
...December Ralph Johnson Bunche will go to Oslo, Norway's capital, to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, which, according to the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, must be awarded "without distinction of nationality." In Oslo Bunche will get a gold medal and a cash award of about $31,700. He has not decided what he will do with the money. "I'm a very conservative person by nature," he said last week, "and I never spend anything before I get it." To celebrate the news, added the usually abstemious Bunche, he had bought a champagne...